Category: Lectures & Talks
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Building for Democracy or Dictatorship?: Chloethiel Woodard Smith’s United States Chancery and Residence in Asunción, Paraguay
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presented her paper Building for Democracy or Dictatorship?: Chloethiel Woodard Smith’s United States Chancery and Residence in Asunción, Paraguay at the Diplomatic Interiors conference, held at ETH Zurich, on 19–21 November 2025. The full programme can be found here: https://diplomaticinteriors.ethz.ch/program.html
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Ethel Power’s Editorship of House Beautiful
Kathleen James-Chakraborty will present a talk titled ‘Ethel Power’s Editorship of House Beautiful: Empowering Women’s Engagement with Architecture‘ at the Zhejiang University School of Art and Archaeology on 17 October 2025.
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Beyond Britain: Writing Architectural History Elsewhere Today
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents the keynote lecture Beyond Britain: Writing Architectural History Elsewhere Today at the SAHGB’s symposium Architectural Historiography in the British Isles: National and International Perspectives. Nearly half a century after Mark Girouard published Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History, the idea that historians of architecture should analyse society as well…
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SAH 79th Annual International Conference, Mexico City, 15-19 April 2026
Dr Cláudia de Souza Libânio will be presenting at the SAH 79th International Conference in Mexico City. Participatory Practices Led by Women in Architectural Education Participatory practices have emerged as a representative field of activity for women architects who work toward building more inclusive, just, and sustainable societies. In fields historically dominated by men, such…
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SAH 79th Annual International Conference, Mexico City, 15-19 April 2026
Dr Ipek Mehmetoğlu will be presenting at the SAH 79th International Conference in Mexico City. Women Writing Welfare Architecture in 1940s Turkey This paper investigates women’s philanthropic labor in shaping modern architecture in Turkish print culture. It interrogates how women activists experienced and wrote about modernity within the political context of 1940s Turkey—a decade marked…
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SAH 79th Annual International Conference, Mexico City, 15-19 April 2026
Dr Alborz Dianat will be presenting at the SAH 79th International Conference in Mexico City. Sister Nesta, Religious Agency and Intersectionality Despite the conceptual limitations of agency in isolation, this paper argues for its value within an intersectional framework, explored through a case study on the Catholic nun and architect Nesta Fitzgerald-Lombard (1916–2006). Considering literature…
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Revisiting the Reception of Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presented her paper ‘Revisiting the Reception of Modern Architecture: International Exhibition’ at the colloquium The Making of Technocelebrity: Intermediaries of the Modern Movement (25–26 September 2025, Leuven). That the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Modern Architecture: International Exhibition played a seminal role in the importation of interwar European architecture to the United States…
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Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art
Join Kathleen James-Chakraborty for the Henriette Hertz Lecture, where she will present on “Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art.” The event will take place on Monday, 14 April, 2025, at Villino Stroganoff in Rome. Pre-registration is required. Sign up by 13 April. For more details, visit: https://events.biblhertz.it/event/95/ Here is a link…
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2025 IAWA Symposium – March 20-21
Kathleen James-Chakraborty will be presenting at the 2025 IAWA Symposium. Her talk, “Chloethiel Woodard Smith: Supported by a Sisterhood of Journalists,” will take place on Thursday, March 20. For more details, visit: IAWA Symposium 2025.
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Bharat safety stoves and cocina criolla: kitchens in 1930s Bombay and Buenos Aires
Pooja Sastry – Symposium: Push/Pull Thresholds in Art and Architectural History An Early Career Researchers Symposium, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (7 March 2025) What can advertisements and recipes tell us about home interiors in the 1930s? While they may not be reliable indicators of how women actually used spaces, they constitute cultural blueprints, and…
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 